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 Content preview:  On 09.12.14 00:51, Andrea Faulds wrote: > Good evening, >
   > I’m opening voting on the Unicode Codepoint Escape Syntax RFC. There’s
    been some discussion in the last two weeks since I introduced the RFC, but
    there’s nothing left which I feel needs changing. For the character name
    syntax suggestion (i.e. something like \N{arabic letter alef}), if that’s
    desired, it could be done later in a different RFC. > > Please read through
    the RFC and cast your vote if you wish to do so: > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/unicode_escape
    > > Voting starts today (2014-12-08) and ends in 10 days’ time (2014-12-18).
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE][RFC] Unicode Codepoint Escape Syntax
From: markus@fischer.name (Markus Fischer)

On 09.12.14 00:51, Andrea Faulds wrote:
> Good evening,
> 
> I’m opening voting on the Unicode Codepoint Escape Syntax RFC. There’s been some discussion in the last two weeks since I introduced the RFC, but there’s nothing left which I feel needs changing. For the character name syntax suggestion (i.e. something like \N{arabic letter alef}), if that’s desired, it could be done later in a different RFC.
> 
> Please read through the RFC and cast your vote if you wish to do so:
> 
> https://wiki.php.net/rfc/unicode_escape
> 
> Voting starts today (2014-12-08) and ends in 10 days’ time (2014-12-18).

The RFC is really a good writeup, very much appreciated.

I've voted no because I'm not entirely convinced the current approach
suits PHP long-term. I absolutely appreciate the hard work going into
it, no doubt, and I rather have a solution yesterday than tomorrow.

But I think a proper Unicode implementation in PHP must not rely on
puzzle pieces put together without a clear goal where's we're overall
heading.

I know that the latter has been tried and failed (multiple times) but
that's how I feel about the situation.

- Markus